Button onLoad? Constructor?

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I haven't worked with Actionscript in a LONG time... back before it was much of anything. So if I'm going about this wrong, I apologize.

I want to name a button instance on the stage at dev time and have the text set to the name of the instance at run time. I figured I could find the name of the instance(it's gotta be a property somewhere in there, right?) and just assign that string to the of the dynamic text field I placed in the button.

This just seems like a nice, clean, easy-to-maintain way of using a button.. when clicked, it would pass it's name to some handler at the root which would figure out what to do with it.

Ideas? Counter-ideas?

Thanks in advance,


Scott.

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Didn't realize I had to embed it in a movieclip. Now it all seems to make sense, except it's not working...!

OK. So, here's what I've got so far:

I have a button called btn_blue in my library with the four states, up/over/down/hit.

Within btn_blue, I have two layers: textLayer and bgLayer.

Within textLayer, I have a textField called optionText (set to dynamic text, obviously.)

In my movieClip, I have an instance of btn_blue called thisButton.

The code at the top of the movieClip (Layer 1, Frame 1), I have:

onLoad = function() {
thisButton.optionText.text = this._name;
}

But no workie. I must have my references wrong somehow, but I'm feeling a bit lost.

Halp?

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